The Path By The Creek Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCBCDD EEBFBFGG HHIJKJLL MMNONOPP QQBNBNRR SSNTNTUU VVNNNNWW NNXLXLYY ZZA2OA2OBB B2B2VC2VC2VV

There is a path that leadsA
Through purple iron weedsA
By button bush and mallowB
Along a creekC
A path that wildflowers hallowB
That wild birds seekC
Roofed thick with eglantineD
And grape and trumpet vineD
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This side blackberries sweetE
Glow cobalt in the heatE
That side a creamy yellowB
In summertimeF
The pawpaws slowly mellowB
And autumn's primeF
Strews red the ChickasawG
Persimmon brown and hawG
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The glittering dragon flyH
A wing d flash goes byH
And tawny wasp and hornetI
Seem gleams that droneJ
The beetle like a garnetK
Slips from the stoneJ
And butterflies float thereL
Spangling with gold the airL
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Here the brown thrashers hideM
The chat and cat bird chideM
The blue kingfisher housesN
Above the streamO
And here the heron drowsesN
Lost in his dreamO
The vireo's flitting noteP
Haunts all the wild remoteP
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And now a cow's slow bellQ
Tinkles along the dellQ
Where breeze dropped petals winnowB
From blossomy limbsN
On waters where the minnowB
Faint twinkling swimsN
Where in the root arched shadeR
Slim prisms of light are laidR
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When in the tangled thornS
The new moon hangs a hornS
Or 'mid the sunset's islandsN
Guides a canoeT
The brown owl in the silenceN
Calls and the dewT
Beads here its orbs of dampU
Each one a firefly lampU
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Then when the night is stillV
Here sings the whippoorwillV
And stealthy sounds of cricketsN
And winds that passN
Whispering through bramble thicketsN
Along the grassN
Faint with far scents of hayW
Seem feet of dreams astrayW
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And where the water shinesN
Dark through tree twisted vinesN
Some water spirit dreamingX
Braids in her hairL
A star's reflection seemingX
A jewel thereL
While all the sweet night longY
Ripples her quiet songY
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Would I could imitateZ
O path thy happy stateZ
Making my life all beautyA2
All bloom and beamO
Knowing no other dutyA2
Than just to dreamO
And far from pain and woeB
Lead feet that come and goB
-
Leading to calm contentB2
O'er ways the Master wentB2
Through lowly things and humbleV
To peace and loveC2
Teaching the lives that stumbleV
To look aboveC2
Forget the world of toilV
And all its sad turmoilV

Madison Julius Cawein



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